Create a Reply Email

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Demonstrates the Chilkat Email.ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and body fields so it can be sent as a reply. Attachments are excluded from the reply, but attached messages are included. The source email is not modified. This example creates a reply and prints its MIME.

Background: Replying is more than swapping sender and recipient: the To is set from the original's reply address, the subject gets an Re: prefix, the original text is quoted, and threading headers (In-Reply-To, References) are added so mail clients group the conversation. ToReply assembles all of that, leaving a message you can edit and send. Dropping attachments is the usual reply convention — you rarely echo the sender's files back to them.

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    success := false

    //  Demonstrates the ToReply method, which generates a reply email with updated header and
    //  body fields ready to send as a reply.  Attachments are excluded from the reply, but
    //  attached messages are included.  The source email is not modified.

    email := chilkat.NewEmail()
    email.SetSubject("Project update")
    email.SetFrom("alice@example.com")
    email.AddTo("Bob","bob@example.com")
    email.SetBody("Here is the project update.")

    //  Create a reply email based on this message.
    reply := chilkat.NewEmail()

    success = email.ToReply(reply)
    if success == false {
        fmt.Println(email.LastErrorText())
        email.DisposeEmail()
        reply.DisposeEmail()
        return
    }

    //  The reply is addressed and quoted, ready to edit and send.
    fmt.Println(*reply.GetMime())

    email.DisposeEmail()
    reply.DisposeEmail()